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'Digger Golf Takes on Ballyneal Course

Readies for Regional Action in May

by KATIE COLLINS, Writer/Photographer, Brush News-Tribune

Posted:
04/29/2013 09:52:59 AM MDT

Updated:
04/29/2013 09:55:37 AM MDT

Brush's own Lauren Howell takes her shot during the April 25 Holyoke Invite held at the Ballyneal Course, where Howell swung in a score of 107 to finish in an individual third place overall.
(Courtesy of George Mussell. )

With regional action set for the first week in May, the 4A Brush Beetdigger Ladies Golf squad is swinging in their final matches of the regular season, and between brisk storms, managed to fit in a trip to Holyoke’s renowned Ballyneal course where Brush took on four other area squads and came out with a third place overall finish.

The 18-hole Ballyneal course has been ranked No. 46 of the top 100 courses in the USA as well as No. 79 of the top 100 courses in the world by Golf Magazine and came in No. 6 in GolfWeek’s list of Best Modern Courses and it was to this very destination club that Brush head coach George Mussell and his roster of ‘Digger journeyed on Thursday, April 25.

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Beetdigger Lauren Howell even managed to swing in a third place individual finish overall with a score of 107, just behind Patterson of Yuma who came in first with a score of 87 and Reed of Wray who dropped a 106 to finish off the Holyoke tourney.Madi Ruhl earned a score of 115 for Brush, placing her eighth in the pack followed by teammates Devin Richter (131) and Dallas Tavenner (126).Combined, the ladies of Brush earned a team score of 348, placing them third below No. 1 Holyoke (339), No. 2 Wray (343), No. 4 Burlington (366) and No. 5 Yuma.

In JV action on the links, Brush’s own Alicia Grauberger earned a 132 and Breanna Rivera shot in a 138.

Beetdigger golf will move on to finish out the season with a Wednesday, May 1 match in Fort Morgan, followed by a Friday, May 3 invitational in Wray before taking on Regional action set for Monday, May 6 at the Eisenhower Golf Course at Air Academy High School in Colorado Springs, where the lady ‘Diggers will vie to attend the 2013 State Golf Championships slated for May 20-21 at the Broken Tree Golf Course in Englewood.The ladies also have a CHSAA home match-up in the works at Brush’s Bunker Hill Country Club on Monday, May 13.